Pablo Riquelme

Three days intensive creative workshop organized by the City of Trencìn and the Stredná Umelecká Scola Trencìn, (Arts & Craft School)

The purpose of the course was to redefine the use of an empty plot located in the historical center of the city. Besides the architecture and public furniture proposed by the students, the history of the area needed to be rediscover and used as an starting point for new services.

The students were introduced to tools and methodologies used in service design as well guided all through the design process. Finally a jury integrated by the city council, local architects and HB Reavis architects selected the winning proposal.

Cooperation: Veronika Hlinicanova

Date: 22-24 April 2017

This project was aimed to create a participation protocol for the production and renovation of housing buildings, following in detail the current and future needs of the residents and suggesting future solutions for low cost housing. For this matter we had a creative team formed by young volunteers, current tenants and NAL workers.

My role was to facilitate and guide the whole team throughout a design process in order to develop key areas of interest:

• Defining what is a suitable environments for housing
• Profiling the residents and they needs
• How we generate a positive resident experience?
• Building a encouraging community
• Design concepts for implementation

Date: 2017-2018

Concept and design for the orientation and information areas at the museum.

This project was part of a renovation process the museum started the year 2015, aiming to engage with new visitor groups, providing more accessible services towards a better user experience.

Date: 2016

Project: Diseña Forum, Zaragoza Spain

Assignment: Introduction to design methodologies and lecture for public servants of the city of Zaragoza

Date: 2017

Grupo de desarrollo estratégico “La candelaria”

Bogotá, Colombia (Project run by Háptica)

Lecture and workshop aiming to find a new service narrative for “La Candelaria” historical neighbourhood. Throughout using design tools and a creative approach, we sketched new services and ways of enhancing the visitor experience at this popular tourist destination.

Cooperation: Háptica Bogotá

Date: 06 November 2017

This activity was part of Shared Cities: Creative Momentum project and its aim was to trigger ideas about design elements that could be used in public areas of the city of Bratislava, proposing long-term and short-term design interventions and activities.

Collaboration: Veronika Hlinicanova

Date: 19 April 2017

Exhibition stand for HSY awareness campaign, focus on food waste and the conscious consumption of raw materials.

Cooperation: Minsu Kuusisto (Communication and graphic design)

Date: 2016

New identity and communications plan for Helsinki City Social Services volunteering work.

Helsinki city has over 2000 volunteer workers, who work for various tasks from taking old people to cultural events to enabling hobbies for disadvantaged kids, all aiming to create more well being and equity among citizens.

One of the insights of the project was giving faces and voice to the volunteers by interviewing and photographing them in Helsinki city surroundings.

Cooperation: Minsu Kuusisto (Art direction and branding)

Portraits photo: Jussi Rekiaro

Date:2016

A Home That Fits looks at solutions for youth homelessness through design methods. Over 1000 people under the age of 25 in Helsinki are currently without a regular dwelling.

This project was carried out alongside the City of Helsinki’s Youth Department. While there are no precise figures on the number of homeless young people in Helsinki, it is assumed that there are more than a thousand. The A Home That Fits project aimed to draw attention to the problem.

The project had three aims; the primary purpose was to increase awareness on the issue of homeless youths in the city of Helsinki; the second was to build a network, which strives to solve the problem as a community, thirdly a range of solutions was taken through experimentation. Such experiments included joint residences for young people and the elderly and various forms of temporary housing.

Young people were truly involved in all of these approaches – either through their work or voluntary activities.

This was one of the most impactful projects I’ve ever been involved in. Significant and interesting at the same time, the dynamics of our approach brought together people from different sectors, cultures and social backgrounds, every body was focused on cooperating and a very unknown phenomena (homelessness) become to be great motivator.

This project supported by the Youth Department of the City of Helsinki, continued till the year 2017. At least one of the experiments carried on, was implemented as a permanent solution and most of the data and methodologies used during the project are now used by similar NGO’s and public organizations.

Date: 2016